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Management of transboundary waters in increasingly becoming more challenging, and climate change is likely to exacerbate these pressures. Not least because climate change is a global issue, adaptation will require an international response.
Author(s):
- Sanchez, Juan Carlos
- Roberts, Joshua
Organization(s):
- IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
- IUCN
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
Ce rapport synthétise les résultats de ces quatre années de recherche et dresse, entre trois sites (barrages et périmètres rizicoles) -- Sélingué au Mali, Bagré au Burkina Faso et Anambé au Sénégal -- des parallèles porteurs d’enseignements pour la région ouest africaine.
Author(s):
- Bazin, Frédéric
- Hathie, Ibrahima
- Skinner, Jamie
- Koundouno, Jérôme
Organization(s):
- Global Water Initiative (GWI)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- IUCN Burkina Faso
In recent years, the governments of the Sahel have committed to combat poverty and food insecurity through a significant increase in the development of irrigable areas. From 2013 onwards, GWI has carried out retrospective studies on three existing dam and rice field sites: Sélingué in Mali, Bagré
Author(s):
- Bazin, Frédéric
- Hathie, Ibrahima
- Skinner, Jamie
- Koundouno, Jérôme
Organization(s):
- Global Water Initiative (GWI)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- IUCN Burkina Faso
Biodiversité et Grande Muraille Verte explore la dépendance de l'humanité vis-à-vis de la nature et l'importance de la biodiversité pour le bien-être et le développement durable au Sahel.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
Biodiversity and the Great Green Wall explores the dependence of humanity on nature and the importance of biodiversity for wellbeing and sustainable development in the Sahel.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
This report explores how the law shapes opportunities for accountability in relation to land deals for agribusiness investments. The report draws on country studies in Cameroon, Ghana and Senegal.
Author(s):
- Cotula, Lorenzo
- Jokubauskaite, Giedre
Organization(s):
- Centre pour l'environnement et le développement (CED)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- Innovation Environnement Développement en Afrique (IED Afrique)
- Land Resources Management Centre (LRMC)
BIOPAMA’s capacity-development strategy in Central and West Africa aims to encourage the managers and administrators of the protected areas (PA) to use the regional information system, or Regional Observatory for Protected Areas and Biodiversity.
Author(s):
- Jomha Djossi, Donald
- Paolini, Carlo
- Rakotobe, Domoina
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
- Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA) Programme
- European Commission
- European Union
- IUCN, Global Protected Areas Programme
- Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA)
This study was commissioned by IUCN Programme Aires Protégées – UICN-PACO in late 2014 to develop comprehensive understanding for the scaling potential of the “small grants for biodiversity” model, and to improve the design and/or targeting of future investments.
Author(s):
- Mesbah, Laurent
- Powell, Steve
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
- World Bank
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making.
Author(s):
- Jusrut, Poonam
- Mandondo, A. (Alois)
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
- Sweden, SIDA
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
Author(s):
- Bacha, Thomas
- Laratte, Clémentine
- Sanon, Arsène
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Comité français de l'UICN
- Fonds Français pour l'Environnement Mondial (FFEM), FR
- IUCN Programme for African Protected Areas & Conservation (PAPACO)
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
La stratégie de développement des capacités du programme BIOPAMA de l’Afrique centrale et occidentale vise à encourager les gestionnaires et administrateurs des aires protégées (AP) à utiliser le Système régional d’information, ou Observatoire régional sur la biodiversité et les aires protégées.
Author(s):
- Jomha Djossi, Donald
- Paolini, Carlo
- Rakotobe, Domoina
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
- Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA) Programme
- European Commission
- European Union
- Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA)
La présente analyse de situation a été réalisée pour éclairer les réponses à plusieurs résolutions formulées lors du 5 Congrès mondial de la nature en 2012, concernant l'état critique des grands vertébrés d'Afrique centrale et de l'Ouest.
Author(s):
- Aalen, Frederick H. A.
- Grainger, Matthew J.
- Hibert, Fabrice
- Hoffmann, Michael
- Mallon, David P.
- McGowan, Philip J. K.
- Vliet, Nathalie van
Organization(s):
- Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA) Programme
- IUCN Global Species Programme
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
- SOS - Save Our Species
Author(s):
- Noray, Marie-Laure de
- Sy, Omar Saïp
Organization(s):
- Fondation MAVA pour la nature
- IUCN Senegal
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
This situation analysis was undertaken to inform responses to several resolutions made at the 5th World Conservation Congress in 2012 about the plight of large vertebrates in West and Central Africa.
Author(s):
- Aalen, Frederick H. A.
- Grainger, Matthew J.
- Hibert, Fabrice
- Hoffmann, Michael
- Mallon, David P.
- McGowan, Philip J. K.
- Vliet, Nathalie van
Organization(s):
- Biodiversity and Protected Area Management (BIOPAMA) Programme
- IUCN Global Species Programme
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
- SOS - Save Our Species
Le renforcement des compétences en « Gestion des aires protégées » demeure une priorité pour l’aménagement et la conservation des parcs et réserves en Afrique de l’ouest et centrale.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
Building capacities in protected area management is a priority for the development and conservation of parks and reserves in West Africa, since a wide range of knowledge and skills is required to manage protected areas, and since the training provided by most water and forestry departments does n
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
Ce plan d'action définit une stratégie de conservation des gorilles et des chimpanzés en Afrique équatoriale occidentale.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
The action plan lays out a conservation strategy for gorillas and chimpanzees in Western Equatorial Africa. The Endangered central chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes and the Critically Endangered western lowland gorilla Gorilla gorilla gorilla are undergoing a dramatic decline due to poaching
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
Management of transboundary waters in increasingly becoming more challenging, and climate change is likely to exacerbate these pressures. Not least because climate change is a global issue, adaptation will require an international response.
Author(s):
- Sanchez, Juan Carlos
- Roberts, Joshua
Organization(s):
- IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
The Cameroon-Nigeria border region where the Cross River gorilla occurs is a biodiversity hotspot of global significance.
Author(s):
- Bergl, Richard
- Byler, Dirck
- Dunn, Andrew
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
- Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), US
This document aims to share lessons learned from the implementation of the Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management Initiative (PREMI) designed and executed by the Central and West Africa Programme of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN-PACO).
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Regional Office for Central and Western Africa
- Sweden, SIDA
Le présent document vise à partager les leçons apprises de la mise en oeuvre de l'Initiative pour la Réduction de la Pauvreté et la Gestion de l'Environnement (Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management Initiative -- PREMI) conçue et exécutée par le Programme Afrique Centrale et Occidentale d
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Regional Office for Central and Western Africa
- Sweden, SIDA
This annual report is the last on the fouryear period that ended in December 2012.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
Ce rapport annuel est donc le dernier de la période quadriennale qui s'est achevée en décembre 2012.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
The period 2009-2012 has a double meaning for the West and Central Africa Programme (PACO), one of the eight regional offices of IUCN worldwide.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
La période 2009-2012 a une double signification pour le Programme Afrique Centrale et Occidentale (PACO), un des huit bureaux régionaux de l'UICN au niveau mondial.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
- Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
- Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA)
- Global Water Partnership (GWP)
- WWF
- Sweden, SIDA
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
- International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
- Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
- Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA)
- Global Water Partnership (GWP)
- WWF
- Sweden, SIDA
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
- International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO)
Ce document est le fruit d'un consensus entre les agences de gestion forestière et de conservation de la faune au Nigeria et au Cameroun, des organisations non gouvernementales locales et internationales de conservation et des chercheurs affiliés à des universités, réunis lors d'ateliers organisé
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
- Zoological Society of San Diego, US
This document represents the consensus of views from forestry and wildlife conservation agencies in Nigeria and Cameroon, local and international nongovernmental conservation organizations, and university-based researchers who met at a series of workshops in Cameroon and Nigeria to formulate a se
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
- Zoological Society of San Diego, US
Ce guide a été rédigé afin d'accompagner les gestionnaires d'Aires Marines Protégées d'Afrique de l'ouest pendant la réalisation de leurs plans de gestion. Il se veut être un document clair, concis et illustré d'exemples de la sous-région. Il s'articule en deux parties distinctes.
Author(s):
- Rizk, Charbel
- Semelin, Julien
- Karibuhoye, Charlotte
Organization(s):
- Programme régional de conservation de la zone côtière et marine en Afrique de l'Ouest (PRCM)
- Fondation internationale du Banc d'Arguin (FIBA)
- Réseau régional d'Aires Marines Protégées en Afrique de l'Ouest (RAMPAO)
Author(s):
- Tapsoba, Ludovic
- Soulama, Drissa
- Savadogo, Moumini
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Burkina Faso
- Global Water Initiative (GWI)
- Catholic Relief Services, US
- Reseau de Communication sur le Pastoralisme (RECOPA)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
This guide draws inspiration from the impressive volume Sharing Power, published by the IUCN/CEESP and IIED. The guide provides what we hope to be a convenient synthesis of the main phases of a shared-governance process for Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in West Africa.
Author(s):
- Borrini, Grazia
- Chatelain, Christian
- Hosch, Gilles
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
- Programme régional de conservation de la zone côtière et marine en Afrique de l'Ouest (PRCM)
Ce document présente les expériences de six barrages construits en Afrique de lOuest entre la fin des années 1970 et la fin des années 1990 : Sélingué au Mali, Niandouba et Confluent au Sénégal, Moussodougou, Bagré et Kompienga au Burkina Faso.
Author(s):
- Bazin, Frédéric
- Koundouno, Jérôme
- Skinner, Jamie
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Global Water Initiative (GWI)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- Institut de Recherches et d’Applications des Méthodes de développement (IRAM), FR
This document examines the experiences of six dams built in West Africa between the late 1970s and late 1990s: the Niandouba and Confluent in Senegal, the Sélingué in Mali, and the Bagré, Kompienga and Moussodougou dams in Burkina Faso.
Author(s):
- Bazin, Frédéric
- Koundouno, Jérôme
- Skinner, Jamie
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Global Water Initiative (GWI)
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
- Institut de Recherches et d’Applications des Méthodes de développement (IRAM), FR
Ce rapport fait le point des actions et résultats dans les cinq domaines du programme quadriennal 2009-2012 : Conserver la diversité de la vie, Changer les prévisions climatiques, Des énergies naturelles pour demain ; Gérer les écosystèmes pour le bien-être humain ; Une économie mondiale plus «ve
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
This report presents actions and outputs in the five areas and the four-year programme 2009-2012: Conserving biodiversity for life; changing the climate forecast; naturally energizing the future; improving life in healthy ecosystems; greening the world Economy.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Regional Programme (PACO)
West Africa, from the coast of Senegal to Lake Chad and Cameroon's Sanaga River, is home to 60 primate species and subspecies, 46 of which occur nowhere else. They range from the nocturnal angwantibo, pottos, and galagos, to the mangabeys, baboons, and the drill, to guenons and colobus monkeys.
Author(s):
- Nash, Stephen D.
- Oates, John F.
Organization(s):
- Conservation International
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
- Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation, US
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